tea stuff

🍵 tea corner

here's all my tea stuff! recipes i've figured out and ingredients i'm playing with <3

⭐ cool tea tips!!

- use clove, cinnamon and cardamom, and ginger, with caution! they're divas and will take over ur blend
- you can use an air fryer to dry orange and apple wedges! just cut them suuuuper fine (a mandolin is fire for this), and don't overlap them. set the air fryer to the lowest temp it can handle and the longest time it can handle, and flip the wedges half way! then if they're not fully dry do 20min intervals. takes a while but works like a charm!
- if you use saffron remember you have to bloom it in warm water for a couple minutes first, you can't use it as a dry blend ingredient

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🌿 current favorite

Silk Road
oolong + lemongrass + cardamom + cinnamon
it's got this soft spiced feeling, warm because of the oolong, with a note of freshness from the lemongrass. the cardamom is for perfume!

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🫖 other blends

🍊 Orange Truffle

- ceylon black tea
- cacao husks + orange + mint
- dessert tea, warm and bright

🌸 Imperial Garden

- white tea
- rose buds + jasmine + lavender
- floral, soft, airy

🔥 Lakshmi

- green tea base
- ginger + cinnamon + clove + cardamom + whole pepper + mint
- spicy and fresh balance, a chai to be had with milk and honey

🧶 Grandma's Orchard

- huyro tea base (it's a mild black tea! you can use ceylon too)
- dry orange, either peel or cut up wedges + cinnamon + clove
- warm, comforting and fragrant!

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🌿 ingredient pantry

black teas

- ceylon
- assam
- huyro

spices

- cinnamon
- cardamom
- clove
- saffron
- black pepper
- cacao husks

herbs

- mint
- lemongrass

flowers

- rose buds
- jasmine
- lavender

fruits

- orange peel
- dry orange wedges
- lemon peel

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time for a cuppa!!!!